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First, in speaking about Radcliffe's mission, no mention was made of the bloated bureaucracy at Fay House. From fiscal 1992 through fiscal 1998, Radcliffe's general and administrative expenses compounded at a 14.2 percent rate, according to the college's annual reports. These do not include the expenses for the capital campaign, a sum by the way, which has been far in excess of the norm usually spent on campaigns of its size...
General and administrative expenses compounding at a 14 percent rate is unconscionable; no other college could exit with increases like this (in comparison, Harvard's have been kept in the low single digits). And Radcliffe is a college that does not have undergraduates. What are they doing over there? Never have so many done so little...
...Radcliffe produced even average endowment results, more money could have been spent on research aid to non-tenured women professors, a current Radcliffe initiative. Similarly, had administrative expenses increased at a much more moderate rate, perhaps undergraduate aid, another Radcliffe expenditure, could have been increased...
...sexual powers," Johnson says. He points to the readily observable fact that at a college reunion, some people have aged more than others: "You do not need to be a molecular biologist to conclude that something (or some things) other than simply the passage of time determines the rate at which we age." And it's not simply a matter of genes, says the author. Johnson prescribes a regimen of supplements, hormones, vitamins and antioxidants in addition to dietary guidelines, exercise and stress-reduction techniques, to achieve that younger-than-the-class-of-'68 look...
...exercise today." Some suggestions are bromide-simple: wear a seat belt, take an aspirin a day, floss your teeth daily. Others are more intriguing: Enjoy (safe) sex frequently. "By making simple decisions, you can take your foot off the gas pedal," says Roizen, "and slow down your rate of aging...